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McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating 500

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @11:42PM from the super-size-my-connection dept.

bfire writes "McDonalds has earmarked potential changes to seating plans in some restaurants to prevent free Wi-Fi users from monopolizing seating, particularly in peak periods. The availability of Wi-Fi means people are now spending 35 minutes in McDonalds — rather than the average ten minutes that patrons used to spend eating there. But it appears not everyone is happy with the increased 'stickiness' of customers, with some licensees in Australia reporting that Wi-Fi users aren't turning over seats fast enough. The restaurant chain is considering options including space demarcation to deal with the problem."

Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM 1232

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @07:38PM from the i-will-tackle-you dept.

net_shaman writes in with word of a Seattle man who was arrested for taking a photo of an ATM being serviced. "Today I was shopping at the downtown Seattle REI. I was about to buy a Thule hitch mount bike rack. They were out of the piece that locks the bike rack into the hitch. So I was in the customer service line to special order one. It was a long line and while I was waiting, I saw two of guys (employees of Loomis, as I later learned) refilling the ATM. I walked over and took a picture with my iPhone of them and more interestingly of the open ATM. I took the picture because I'm fascinated by the insides of things that we don't normally get to see. ... That was when Officer GE Abed (#6270) spun me around and put handcuffs on me."

Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs 193

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 20, 2009 @12:00PM from the driving-by dept.

snydeq writes "Security companies warn of a new flaw in version 9 of Adobe Reader and Acrobat that could compromise PCs merely by the opening of a malicious PDF. Although attacks are not yet widespread, hackers are exploiting the flaw in the wild, gaining control of computers via buffer overflow conditions triggered by the opening of specially crafted PDFs." Adobe is calling the flaw "critical" and says a patch for Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 will be released by March 11.

How Do You Document Technical Procedures? 401

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 19, 2009 @12:42PM from the mt-spokane-ski-patrol dept.

ChadDa3mon writes "I work for a large MSSP type operation and we deal with a plethora of vendors, versions, and .... skill sets. We're facing a critical problem as we grow when trying to deal with these varying degrees of technical competency. The end result is we're getting to the point where we have to document every procedure and process, no matter how mundane or 'common sense' it may seem." How, ChadDa3mon wants to know, can complex skills be documented to account for various users? Read on for more details of what he's seeking.

DragonFly BSD 2.2 Released 44

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @05:23PM from the big-essin'-deal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DragonFly BSD 2.2 is now available. The second release to feature the HAMMER (versioning, among other things) filesystem — now considered production-ready — it includes 'major stability improvements across the board, new drivers, much better pkgsrc support and integration.' Apart from the CD ISO, this release has a DVD ISO with 'a fully operational X environment,' as well as a bootable USB disk-key image."

Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day 407

Posted by timothy on Friday January 23, 2009 @09:08AM from the why-mess-with-success dept.

theodp writes "Using Yahoo's free e-mail service to conduct government business was good enough for Sarah Palin. And now the Washington Times reports that Obama staffers turned to Gmail on Inauguration Day to conduct their business. Those wishing to contact members of the incoming Obama administration were instructed to contact staffers at wh.LASTNAME@gmail.com until official White House e-mail addresses became available."

Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App 461

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @04:31PM from the pull-up-your-kill-list dept.

An anonymous Coward writes "Knights Armament Corp. who supply sniper rifles to the US military have developed a iPod Touch mounting system and software for the US Army M110 sniper rifle system. The use of off the shelf hardware no doubt cut costs and allowed rapid development of this system." If it automatically played a theme song after every head shot, this would be the coolest rifle accessory ever.

Comment Re:Oh good. (Score 1) 215

by drauh on Monday January 12, 2009 @08:51PM (#26425671) Attached to: The Evolution of Python 3

uh, no. whitespace block indentation means blocks have no delimiters. using "END IF" etc means you're adding a closing delimiter. python says: you don't need it.

really, though, this stuff is minor. any good editor will handle all this for you, whether with braces or without. the other language i like is LISP, which is diametrically opposite python in its use of ()s everywhere.

New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again? 227

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @08:52PM from the matters-of-deep-significance dept.

theodp writes "Last June, Google rolled out a new favicon, the small branding icon that graces your URL bar when you visit Google. Which, as it turned out, bore a striking similarity to Garth Brooks' Circle-G logo. Well, Google went back to the drawing board and has come back with a new favicon, which it says was inspired by — not copied from, mind you — its users' submitted ideas. Some are also seeing inspiration elsewhere for the new favicon, which consists of white 'g' on a background of four color swatches. Take the AVG antivirus icon, for instance. Or everybody's favorite memory toy, Simon. Or — in perhaps the unkindest cut of all — the four-color Microsoft Windows logo, shown here with a superimposed white '7'. Anything else come to mind?" What comes to mind for me is just how obsessed many people are with the Google favicon.

Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms 420

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 01, 2008 @10:14PM from the courtroom-battles-not-ended dept.

The Bush administration and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are poised to square off in front of a San Francisco federal judge Tuesday to litigate the constitutionality of legislation immunizing the nation's telecoms from lawsuits accusing them of helping the government spy on Americans without warrants. "'The legislation is an attempt to give the president the authority to terminate claims that the president has violated the people's Fourth Amendment rights,' the EFF's [Cindy] Cohn says. 'You can't do that.'"

Comment Do you have enemies? (Score 1) 552

by drauh on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @02:23PM (#24216755) Attached to: Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish?

Leave it on their lawn with a note, "This BUD's for you!"

Comment Re:YouTube not evil! (Score 1) 424

by jxyama on Monday October 09, 2006 @10:53PM (#16373717) Attached to: Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion

>I was watching a football game this sunday and saw an ad for a car that was done up like a drug ad - guy who is normally clostraphobic in small cars finds the new car roomy enough - at the end he goes into a field of wildflowers with a puppy and the model name of the car is shown with the MPG shown in small print much like drugs show the dosage. It was whitty, creative, and not obnoxious at all. I actually backed it up with Tivo and showed it to my wife who also got a kick out of it.

...but didn't do a very good job making you remember what car it was. :P (It's Nissan.)

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